Category: Uncategorized

DATE: 2022-11-02
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Magoo
PAX: Disco, 3 mile, Fish Fry, Kodiak, Mr Haand, Old Bay, Purple Rain, SPINAL TAP, vplaxico, 2 percent, sticks, Median FNGs: Atache
COUNT: 14
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

DATE: 2022-11-02
AO: Patriot
Q: citrus
PAX: Big Short, Legacy, Shake ‘N’ Bake, bogey, Booking, CableGuy, My Space, Spokes, Wedding Singer, Lazlo, Grape Ape, Tea Party, Jag, Lucius, Wallace FNGs: Smokey (get on Slack!)
COUNT: 17
WARMUP: SSH, WMH, cherry pickers, Michael Phelps, IW, hillbillies, down dog, World’s Greatest Stretch

THE THANG:
Mosied to various parts of #thepatriot.

PART #1: 3 rounds, 10 step ups and 10 dips

PART #2
• Teams wait in wall sit
• First PAX completes 10 monkey humpers (IC) and then bear crawls to cone and back • Repeat for all PAX
• Losing team completes 10 burpees (5 burpees for first loser)

PART #3: 3 rounds, 10 Aussie merkins and 10 squats

PART #4
• Teams wait in plank position
• First PAX completes 10 merkins, then crab walks to cone and back • Repeat for all PAX
• Losing team completes 10 burpees (5 burpees for first loser)

PART #5: 3 rounds, 10 lunges and 10 flutter kicks (plus bonus 10 merkins, because YHC forgot what the second exercise was supposed to be at first)

PART #6:
• Team completes 5 merkins together, then first PAX sprints to 25 yard line and back • Repeat for all PAX
• Losing team completes 10 burpees (5 burpees for first loser)

PART #6a: Lots of misunderstandings about PART 6, so we did it again.

PART #6b: Still more misunderstanding, so everyone just did 5 burpees at the end.

MARY: LBC, WWI, Nolan Ryan

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 11/11 Vet Burpee Challenge; 11/12 The Grunt

COT: It’s rare to have a group of brothers like this you can rely on, so make sure you lean on them when you need it.

DATE: 2022-11-02
AO: Compound
Q: Popeyes
PAX: Poe, Nano, Roddick, Yardbird, Doodles, Zeus, Peanuts
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: SSH, Laps around the field with butt kickers, karaokes, star jacks, high knees, merkins, arm circles, and arm presses. THE THANG:
Stations
1) Squat thrust with coupon
2) Mountain climbers on slides
3)Jump rope
4) two people on the rubber band (one sprints while the other person pulls on the band) 5) Squat thrust with coupon
6) Heavy Jump rope
7) Sprint around the field

3 sets of sprints on the soccer field

In between each set:
10 merkins x 3
10 burpees x 3
10 SSH in between x3

MARY:
A variation of monkey humpers
Big Boys
flutter kicks
Pointing dogs
LBC’s
Imperial walkers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Turkey Trot, Grunt, Burpees for Vets, Prayers up for Hightower’s dad and Rambler’s relatives COT: Do the right thing even though no one cares and don’t steal toothpaste.

DATE: 2022-11-01
AO: Delphi
Q: Pop Fly
PAX: I-Beam, Nano, Dunder, Rocket, Hoolihan, Gadget, Juneau, Peanuts, K-Pop FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: SSHs, Trunk Twists, Cherry Pickers, Lunges
THE THANG: We met on the tennis courts
(1) Down and back: Merkins
– Run across the 3 tennis courts. Each down and back, conduct a Push-up ladder. Start with 1 and go up to 10. Ex: Down and back, 1 push-up. Down and back, 2 push-ups…. Down and back, 10 push-ups. (2) Down then Back: Over Head Press
– Rifle Carry Coupon to far side of tennis courts, execute 1 Over-head Press. Rifle carry Coupon back to start line, 2 OH Presses. Continue ladder until reaching 10 OH Presses (3) Down and Back: Kettlebell Swings
– Out to the end of the 2nd tennis court and back, execute a Kettlebell Swing ladder. 1-10 (4) 30x Sit-ups with partner holding PAX feet to the ground (switch) (5) Down then Back: Squats
– Farmer Carry Coupon to end of 1st tennis court. Execute 1 squat. Farmer carry back to start, 2 squats. Back and forth until ladder to 10 squats is complete (6) Down and Back: Curls
– Down and back across the 3 tennis courts. Execute a curl ladder from 1 up to 10. (ten out and backs) (7) 30x Sit-ups with partner holding PAX feet to the ground (switch) (8) 2x Suicides across the courts.

MARY: No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Grunt (12 Nov), 2nd Social (16th), Turkey Trot (24th)

COT: The 2ndF events are what grow us. If you’re going to get up at 0530 – you’re amazing. So are the other guys to the left and right of you. Participating in the 2ndF events provides another layer of fulfillment that only brings goodness and balance to our lives and to the group.

DATE: 2022-11-01
AO: Freestate
Q: Horshack
PAX: Winston, Deagle, ShowMe, Butter
FNGs: Lefty
COUNT: 6
Warm Up

SSH x 25 IC

Carolina Dry Docks x 19 IC

Shoulder Taps x 15 IC

Mountain Climbers x 15 IC

Michael Phelps x 14 IC

4 laps – Ricky Bobbies

Harry Rockettes x 15 IC

Willie Mays Hayes x 10 IC

Windmills x 10 IC

Cherry Pickers x 15 IC

The Thang: Blocktober is Over, Long Live Blocktober

EMOM: 3 sets with 8 rounds each

5 blockies then 15 mountain climbers

10 CPRs (Curl / Press / Raise) then 10 squats

10 Taint Scrapers then 10 merkins

Mary:

Leg Lift Rosalitas x 15 IC

Freddie Mercuries x 15 IC

Box Cutters x 10 each direction IC

Plank-o-rama x 10-10-10-10-10 IC

Reverse Crunches x 15 IC

Announcements

Saturday Nov 5th – Adopt A Road Clean Up

Saturday Nov 12th – The Grunt

COT:

Count-o-rama – Name-o-rama

“With the faith of a child”
Halloween brought lots of kids and it was noticeable that in general, the 6 year olds and younger are typically ALL IN with their costumes, believing themselves to be their favorite characters while the 7 yo and older crowd begins to lose that commitment to make-believe. They call the age of seven “the age of reason”

It reminded me of a story that during one of Picasso’s abstract periods, an art critic told the master – you know, my child could have painted that! Picasso reportedly looked delighted and responded saying, “you’ve made my day – I wish I were as wise as the day I was born.”

Matthew 18:2-4: “Jesus called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Both Day of the Dead and All Souls Day are very similar remembrances of the deceased including prayers and honors, for ancestors with nearly every other secular and religious observance around the world.

Clearly, the vast majority of the world believes that there is some life beyond this world something to hope for. Of course, this is rooted on faith and not some scientific or observable evidence.

It reminds me of a seminar I attended many years ago about leadership and strategy execution. The instructor had led the seminar in Washington DC over a dozen times before and delivered the material to other groups in war torn regions, and nearly every major industrial country as well as across the largest cities in the United States.

He said that of all the places he had visited, the thing that distinguished Washington DC by far in his experience was how cynical and resigned people were. Washingtonians generally had seen it all – and great ideas were doomed.

They seemed to have lots of great reasons why the most inspiring leaders, the best visions, and most well-designed strategies would invariably go off the rails.

He used a Colin Powel line, that leaders are brokers in hope and they inspire in their followers a faith in a better tomorrow.

This instructor believed that hopefulness and faith in our world is a muscle which is very present in young children, but often atrophies over our lifetimes leaving us jaded as adults to play a smaller game.

The instructor encouraged us to swim against today’s prevailing cynicism and resignation, find an opportunity each day to reconnect with our playfulness and imagination, our childlike faith and hopefulness, get on the court and play a big game worthy of our lives.